Broadchurch 1.08

Episode Eight

Tom Miller and his father are brought in for questioning. Alec interviews Tom. He asks him about his computer. Tom lies at first but once he knows that Alec has his computer and some of the messages between Tom and Danny, he opens up. 

The killer gets tired of hiding. He still has Danny's phone. He turns it on. Alec tracks it back to the Miller's residence. Joe Miller, Ellie's husband, is arrested and confesses to killing Danny. He claims that he was in love with Danny but that he did nothing except hold him. He got angry and killed Danny by accident when Danny threatened to to tell about them.

Ellie finds out about it from Alec. She loses it both before and after she talks to Joe. Alec also breaks the news to the Latimer family. Ellie makes an attempt to talk to Beth but Beth doesn't believe that Ellie didn't know anything.

Broadchurch 1.07

Episode Seven

Alec wakes up in the hospital. Ellie is there. She's angry at him for not tellling her about his heart condition. She leaves him in the hospital but before long he checks himself out and heads back to work.

Ellie continues the questioning of Susan Wright, without Alec. She finally gets Susan to start opening up. Susan tells Ellie about her life before she moved to town. She also tells Ellie about how she saw something from the cliffs on the night of the murder and headed down to the beach.

Ellie pokes holes in Susan's story. Susan finally admits that she was on the beach and saw a boat come in to the beach. The man in the boat came ashore and dropped Danny's body off and then left. It takes some more prodding but she finally admits that it was Nige. She also explains that she thinks Nige is her son.

Broadchurch 1.06

Episode Six

The episode opens with the funeral for Jack Marshall. Alec and Ellie keep their eyes open at the funeral and at the reception afterwards. Alec approaches Tommy, Ellie's son, and talks to him for a few minutes until Tommy's father sees them talking and gets Danny away from Alec.

Karen White tries to apologize to Ollie. She ran off for a few days after Jack Marshall was found dead. She feared that she would be blamed. Ollie isn't too impressed by her disappearing routine or by the fact that she didn't respond to his texts or e-mails.

Alec does some research and discovers that Paul Coates, the priest, is a recovering alcoholic. Alec suspects that Paul is hiding more than just that and asks him to come in so that he can get a genetic sample.

Broadchurch 1.05

Episode Five

The press starts to focus on Jack Marshall. He finally explains why it was that he spent a year in prison. He was a 39-year-old piano teacher. He had sex with a 15-year-old girl. It was her father that blew the whistle on the affair. Jack and the girl got married when he got out of prison. They had a son but he was killed in a car accident. Jack's wife left him after that.

Beth and Mark talk about why he had an affair with Becca Fisher. Beth finally tells Mark that she is pregnant.

Oliver and Karen write a story about Jack Marshall. They get testimony from Chloe's boyfriend, who was part of the Sea Brigade. Their story gets rewritten by the newspaper to make Jack Marshall look really bad. Oliver and Karen spend the night together. The next morning they find out about the rewritten story. It brings even more pressure on Jack Marshall.

Broadchurch 1.04

Episode 4

It turns out that the burned boat does not to belong to Mark. Once the wreckage of the boat is brought ashore there is evidence found to indicate that Danny had once been on the boat.

Beth struggles with telling Mark that she knows about Becca Fisher. Eventually she does, but not until just before the end of the episode.

Oliver finds proof that Jack Marshall, who owns the news stand, had a conviction for a child sex crime. Oliver's boss takes the information to the police, who confront Marshall about it. Oliver later confronts Jack himself. Nige overhears the conversation between Oliver and Jack and tells Mark about it.

Broadchurch 1.03

Episode 3

Mark Latimer is brought in to the police station for questioning. Before he goes in he texts his employee Nige and asks him to cover for him on the night of the murder. Mark tells Alec and Allie that he was with Nige. He also tells them that he was in the cottage fixing something, which explains how his prints wound up there. 

Alec and Ellie talk to the cleaning lady. She has no recollection of giving the keys to the cottage to Mark. They investigate Mark's boat and find some blood stains. 

They question Nige but he doesn't have a very good story and they see right through it and are able to confirm he wasn't with Mark when they talk to his mother.

Broadchurch 1.02

Episode 2

The police search the Latimer home and find a wad of money in Danny's room and some cocaine in his sister Chloe's room. Ellie asks Chloe about the cocaine. She says she was holding it for Becca Fisher, the woman who runs the inn. The police leave a liaison officer with the family.

Karen White, the reporter from out of town, tries to talk to a few people. Alec Hardy, Chloe Latiemer. 

Jack Marshall, the man who runs the newsstand, tells Alec about a time he saw Danny arguing with the mailman. Alec and Ellie investigate the story but it leads nowhere. The mailman has an alibi and it checks out.

Broadchurch 1.01

Episode 1

The body of a young boy, Danny Latimer is found on the beach near the base of some cliffs. Alec Hardy is put in charge of the investigation. He is new to Broadchurch. He is paired with Ellie Miller, a life long resident of Broadchurch.

The police try to keep the identity of the victim under wraps but Oliver Stevens, a local reporter, figures out who the victim is after he sees Danny's sister on the beach near the site where her brother's body was found. Oliver tweets out the victim's identity.

Danny's family is distraught, as are many people in town. Ellie's son Tom was Danny's best friend. Tom starts deleting messages and data from his computer and phone after he learns of Danny's death.

A reporter comes to town from a national newspaper after seeing Oliver's tweet.